Writing J code feels a bit more like you're interacting with a database, in that the code is being executed in a way that isn't immediately obvious based on the

Writing J code feels a bit more like you're interacting with a database, in that the code is being executed in a way that isn't immediately obvious based on the logical instructions you give it. It seems like the higher level and terser you can make the instructions, the faster it will generally run, because J can more ideally optimize the operations.